President Barack Obama, according to an aide, talking about how he and “his team were going to cut [Romney] off and block [Romney] at every turn.” [NY Times]
A+ Mr. President.
![Well today is Manchester United’s first match of the season (against Everton) and I’m excited to see the man pictured above, Robbie van Persie, and Shinji Kagawa on the same squad alongside Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young, Tom Cleverley, Michael Carrick, Nani, Antonio Valencia, Danny Welbeck, Chicharito, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Nemanja Vidic, and I think you understand what I’m doing here with this run-on sentence.
However I’m not excited by all of the defensive injuries. With Rio Ferdinand now out for three to four weeks and Evans, Jones and Smalling injured, Manchester United are left with one experienced center back for the today’s match. It is likely that Sir Alex Ferguson will play Michael Carrick at center back and though I love Michael Carrick as a midfielder, this means that Everton’s Naismith and the man who can’t seem to stop scoring, Nikica Jelavić, are going to have some very good looks at De Gea’s goal.
This was Friday’s squad sheet according to The Guardian but that has changed with Rio Ferdinand’s injury. For those of us in the United States of America, the match begins at 3 pm EST.
It has all of the pieces to be a great match with a lot of goals. In any case, I’ve been drinking green tea all night so I’m pumped. I missed football, life just isn’t as sweet when I’m not tense and yelling at a television during the early hours of the morning or on the verge of stabbing anyone that mentions that the team I’m rooting for lost. Good f***ing times.
[Image via Manchester United’s Facebook]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m91yyiWmGG1qzs6yjo1_1280.jpg)
Well today is Manchester United’s first match of the season (against Everton) and I’m excited to see the man pictured above, Robbie van Persie, and Shinji Kagawa on the same squad alongside Wayne Rooney, Ashley Young, Tom Cleverley, Michael Carrick, Nani, Antonio Valencia, Danny Welbeck, Chicharito, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Nemanja Vidic, and I think you understand what I’m doing here with this run-on sentence.
However I’m not excited by all of the defensive injuries. With Rio Ferdinand now out for three to four weeks and Evans, Jones and Smalling injured, Manchester United are left with one experienced center back for the today’s match. It is likely that Sir Alex Ferguson will play Michael Carrick at center back and though I love Michael Carrick as a midfielder, this means that Everton’s Naismith and the man who can’t seem to stop scoring, Nikica Jelavić, are going to have some very good looks at De Gea’s goal.
This was Friday’s squad sheet according to The Guardian but that has changed with Rio Ferdinand’s injury. For those of us in the United States of America, the match begins at 3 pm EST.
It has all of the pieces to be a great match with a lot of goals. In any case, I’ve been drinking green tea all night so I’m pumped. I missed football, life just isn’t as sweet when I’m not tense and yelling at a television during the early hours of the morning or on the verge of stabbing anyone that mentions that the team I’m rooting for lost. Good f***ing times.
[Image via Manchester United’s Facebook]
The Mexico National Team poses with their gold medals after beating Brazil 2-1.
This is a largely American run blog, so our natural enemies are Mexico, but we didn’t even make it to the Olympics and they won the whole dang thing so we’ve got to give respect where respect is due. Congrats Mexico.
Hey buddy, Mexico is not your natural enemy.
The Daily Californian ‘Calympics’ Issue | Thursday, July 26, 2012
Infographic: ‘A History of Cal in the Olympics’
Graphic Artist: Chris Chau/Staff
55.7% of our medals have been gold? I am disappoint.
Deborah Lipstadt doesn’t pull any punches in her piece about the controversy that erupted this year over a moment of silence to remember the Israeli Olympic athletes murdered in Munich in 1972:
The athletes who were murdered were from Israel and were Jews—that is why they aren’t being remembered. The only conclusion one can draw is that Jewish blood is cheap, too cheap to risk upsetting a bloc of Arab nations and other countries that oppose Israel and its policies.
I have long inveighed against the tendency of some Jews to see anti-Semitism behind every action that is critical of Israel or of Jews. In recent years some Jews have been inclined to hurl accusations of anti-Semitism even when they are entirely inappropriate. By repeatedly crying out, they risk making others stop listening—especially when the cry is true.
Here the charge is absolutely accurate. This was the greatest tragedy to ever occur during the Olympic Games. Yet the IOC has made it quite clear that these victims are not worth 60 seconds. Imagine for a moment that these athletes had been from the United States, Canada, Australia, or even Germany. No one would think twice about commemorating them.
HT: Steven Abraham.
After watching the opening ceremony, they could have and should have evoked or incorporated the Israeli Olympic athletes murdered in Munich in 1972 into their moment of silence. It would have taken nothing away from the event and it would have added a wealth of knowledge and solidarity for an event that many today, 40 years later, still immediately associate with the Olympics.
Here’s what LeBron’s email probably looks like (spoof):
h/t Grantland
The Stephen Jackson email destroyed me.
